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Overview

Who: April Caouette, perpetual temp worker/agent of the uncanny valley
Pronouns: uses she/they interchangeably, but answers to anything
What: not human, though very convincing.
Where: April works at the William Lyon Mackenzie King Institute of Paranormal Studies, out of a decommissioned Emergency Government Headquarters in an undisclosed location in Canada. Through an [UNDEFINED] temporary employment agency, on a seemingly perpetually renewing contract.

Personality:
Exhausted with their workplace but clocks in anyway to get the job done, holds a petty grudge against anyone who slights them, avoids putting themselves at risk, treats killing/traumatizing humans as a banal, everyday part of life (but doesn't have an edgelord manifesto about it). Comes off as deadpan until you get them riled up about their niche passions, like their pent-up opinions on office/supernatural politics or modernizing methods of feeding on humanity. And they have a lot of opinions. Generally calm otherwise, unless you're proposing something really boneheaded to them (or near enough for them to hear). Always willing to offer advice (because they want to sound like an authority on something, not because they actually want to help).

Appearance:
You're pretty sure they have short/mid-length brown hair, brown - or hazel? green? eyes, maybe freckles, a nose that's either straight or crooked, definitely a mouth of some kind, probably skin - normal, that's it, you're sure she - they - looks normal, unremarkable. Exactly what you expect when you look at a receptionist, or a file clerk, or an office assistant.

Abilities
It's impossible to perceive their face and hard to remember who they are, unless efforts are made on either end. This is, in part, just the nature of being a temp worker, but also because they're a supernatural creature based on unclear images/memories. Photos or film with them on it have messed up faces, but most people who meet April don't notice anything amiss until they try to remember what they look like, where they'll slowly realize they're not actually sure about the features they're describing.
(April can also just make photos develop in a very cursed image sort of way, but that's less likely to come up in direct interactions without some kind of set up.)

Their generic appearance tends to leave people with a feeling like they've seen them somewhere before, though whether that's an actual supernatural ability they have or just a result of how average they look is debatable.

Longer profile here!

Permissions

April is an OC with some partially/completely blank face body horror, so if that's not your thing you can let me know and I'll avoid those icons! Or emphasizing that part of their tags too much.

Also in Come Sail Away, there is a non-zero chance that April's best friend Flan yourexoduslaughing may literally drop into a thread with April, so please let me know here or on their opt-out if you don't want that.

The Magnus Archives AU
Sometimes I play April as they would appear in The Magnus Archives. Longer profile for that version of them is over here!
As for spoilers for the series, I've seen it all, though I mostly play ambiguously season 3-mid season 4 setting-wise. I'll try to avoid directly talking about major series spoilers (unless you're someone playing past that point, or say you're fine with it). For more detail about April and spoilers, click here.

OOC:

Backtag: very yes. whether that means like, getting back to a thread that's been quiet a few days, or finding a top comment in an oldass bakerstreet meme and wondering, 'oh can I tag this or would that be weird?' the answer is yes you can tag haha

Threadjacking: In memes where it's like, q&a and dialogue, like text memes or advice memes or other things like that, you can cut in if you'd like! Longer-form threads, I'd prefer you ask first!

Tag Revision: If I goof up in a tag or if you need a better hook, you're absolutely welcome to message me for an edit!

Reminders: If it's been a few days and you haven't heard from me but want the thread to keep going, I don't mind at all if you poke me! I'm a full time student with organizational issues so odds are I meant to get back to you but got so caught up in something else that I lost track of the days. Go ahead and poke me and I'll let you know if I can continue or not!

IC:

Death/Injury/etc: If you want to do anything dramatic violent-wise to April in a thread (or want april to do some weird monster shit to you) then let me know so I can take the scene there! Otherwise I assume any skirmishes or powerflexing will be minor or near-misses, and likewise on my end I'll leave it open to hit or miss etc.

Mindreading: Sure, you're mostly going to get a lack of surprise at the strange and supernatural, and a background thought of 'I'm not getting paid enough for this'. And, uh, what I write in the non-dialogue parts of the tag, of course.

Pinging her being not-human: Not immediately, but if you spend long enough around April you might notice how her features and name seem to slip from your memory.
If you're supernaturally able to, or experienced with human imitations (I.e., if you're clairvoyant, got a lens of truth, are affiliated with the Beholding, or have dealt with a lot of human-imitating things before), you can guess off the bat that April isn't human.

Seeing Her Face: Nothing beyond being able to tell you eyes aren't seeing what your brain is saying is there, at least not without asking me first. ^^; If you want that forbidden knowledge, though, let me know and I can work something out!

Physical Contact: You have my permission, but April hates it and will withdraw if you put your hand on them unless you're past the 'acquaintance' threshold with them.
Flirting: Go for it, but April will shoot you down.
Sex: Extremely Unlikely.
Horror/Gore/Etc: April herself is a light body horror monster who feeds on humans, so April is just fine witnessing or participating in acts of horror, violence, and gore. 👍

Opt-In: Do YOU want to be cursed by April? Have your photos haunted by spooky faces, or an image you can never live up to, or a distortion that does not match your self image, and so on? Let me know here or in a DM or anywhere and I'll happily work something out!